Example Sentences

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M&S said the model's pose was chosen to portray confidence and ease and not to convey slimness.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2025

Even then, he doesn't care about fashionable slimness or a college diploma.

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2024

“Mimi’s position is so important to the rest of us, because celebrity culture often sets the standard for everyday women — the standards of slimness and beauty and looking young,” Douglas said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2023

At barre, sculpt society “strengthen lengthen tone” classes, the slimness and litheness of your body is on display, judgeable, as you do tiny movements that won’t leave you all that much stronger.

From Slate • Jan. 1, 2023

The stocky build had dwindled to slimness, the thick silver hair tinted black, and the distinctive Ashton nose altered with putty, but those dark and penetrating eyes would be impossible to mistake.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood